Hi All,
I'm writing an API module that I'd like to take 'complex' data for one of
the parameters, e.g.
{
"action": "example",
"token": "<some csrf token>",
"data": [
{"key": "value1", "otherkey":
"othervalue1"},
{"key": "value2", "otherkey":
"othervalue2", "optionalkey":
"optionalvalue"},
{"key": "value3", "otherkey":
"othervalue3"}
]
}
The list in data can grow to several hundred elements all of which contain
the same 2 keys with an optional third. For reference, I'm developing on
mw1.31, but I can swap to something more recent if that's where new
possibilities become available.
This module takes POST requests, so I'd just send it as part of the request
body, but when it comes to deserialising it, I'm not really sure what to
deserialise it to as everything seems to assume primitive values, e.g.
strings, integers, etc. when it comes to setting the parameter type. I'm
not averse to claiming it's a string and deserialising it myself, but my
attempts so far haven't proved successful. I also tried writing a phpunit
test which displayed different behaviour (it seems to have quietly lost the
value) and using the mwapi python library for an integration/end-to-end
test which caused a third behaviour by quietly joining the elements in the
list into a string. I get the feeling what I'm trying to do is at the very
least non-standard for mediawiki.
Does anyone have experience in trying to do this or know of prior art that
does something similar?
Cheers,
Matt